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Spes Nostra is Latin for "Our Hope." Taken from sixty-nine canonized saints and ninety holy priests, religious, and lay people, each one of the more than 800 passages in this book comprises a most potent salve with which to treat and heal the wound of weariness. That salve is hope. The more difficulties surround us in life, the more we should remember that we are not made for this world. We are here for a brief moment only, a day in via. Heaven awaits us! This is the book that will keep such amazing truths constantly before our eyes. It will convince us that defeatism is not an option.

• We all experience disappointments, frustrations, sorrows, and other assorted kinds of pain in this life of exile from our blissful heavenly homeland, often leading us to the brink of discouragement or perhaps even despair.  It is at (or approaching) this perilous precipice that we most need to be arrested with the pull-back of encouragement, simply in order to persevere.  In a word, we need hope.  This book Spes Nostra contains, in its various sectional categories, wise advice and counsels excerpted from the luminous meditations of numerous illustrious spiritual writers.  The text thus becomes a veritable pharmacopeia of remedies applicable to the various problematic contexts and situations in which we might find ourselves.  It is therefore highly recommended for random reference, periodic perusal, or even a regular daily consumption of preventative medicine in sequential doses for those seeking continual uplift and edification. —Dr. David Lang, Professor of Thomistic Philosophy at Our Lady of Grace Seminary. 

  On the long and dusty road of life, which is not without its sorrows, tragedies, and betrayals, it is easy to feel beleaguered, beaten down, ready to give up. Often, all it takes is a timely word of truth, of hope, of strength, of comfort, to refresh us like a drink from a cool spring. For that purpose, this book is truly a godsend. It more than lives up to its subtitle, Profound Words of Encouragement and Consolation for Weary Members of the Mystical Body. Its pages remind us, with a well-selected abundance of ‘power quotes’ from the saints, that our heavenly Father holds us lovingly in His hands; the Lord Jesus is with us always, as He promised; and our compassionate Mother accompanies us with her attentive prayers. A treasure-trove of Christian wisdom, sparks for igniting meditation, ammunition for the daily battle—this book could not have come at a better time! —Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, Tradition and Sanity

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